"Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past."

"Dear Ella,Impatience is not usually my weakness. But your letters torment me. They make me long to saddle my horse an…"

"That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. (p. 3)"

""I know you can imitate people just as Lady Eleanor could. Once you imitated your manservant to his face, and he wasn…"

""What a clever daughter I have." Mum Olga beamed at Hattie."As clever as she is beautiful," I said."

""I don't suppose your eyes ever pop out," I said."I don't think so." Hattie smiled complacently. "They're too small t…"

"Mau had been shocked at this. Every boy wanted to be a warrior, didn’t he? “You didn’t want to be a warrior?” “Never.…"

"Normally people tended to be very quiet in the parish church. Perhaps they were afraid of waking God up in case He as…"

"Some people would tell you anything if they thought you’d be scared."

"“It’s a trick!” he said, without thinking. “Not so loud,” snapped Nawi, glancing back at the shore. “Of course it’s a…"